Southerly change came through around 6am this morning, still very humid along the coast. There is a strong smell of rain, it smells nice and refreshing, but its just a very fine mist falling. Radar doesn't look real promising at all.

Hottest month on record in Penrith, avg was 35.1c. Broke the old record by 1.2c!

1.2c!

That is absolute madness, especially when you consider the old record was only from Jan 2017. Also had the hottest day on record (47.3c) and without digging back i reckon it'd have to be the most days >40 (7) and most days >35 (18).

Oh that's after breaking the December monthly record as well as the December daily max.

So i guess if Feb is somewhere close to average it should be the hottest summer on record out this way.

Hottest month on record in Penrith, avg was 35.1c. Broke the old record by 1.2c!

1.2c!

That is absolute madness, especially when you consider the old record was only from Jan 2017. Also had the hottest day on record (47.3c) and without digging back i reckon it'd have to be the most days >40 (7) and most days >35 (18).

Oh that's after breaking theK December monthly record as well as the December daily max.

So i guess if Feb is somewhere close to average it should be the hottest summer on record out this way.

Prob significant for current site. But maybe not so much for all of Sydney itself. But I guess some number crunching by Blair will indicate the basin wide story as far as records go.Regardless. Sure has been hot

I'm not sure what the models say but there is an enormous amount of cloud over the country atm so this I would suspect should see a cooler few weeks ahead due to lack of inland heating.It might just get us through February without any of the extreme heat we have seen of late.I'm fine with some heat in general. It's summer after all. But none of this prolonged heatwave [censored] like we have dealt with in January.

Looking back when the BOM had released their outlook for Jan in about Dec my area was supposed to exceed the outlook to about 100-130mm. But now at the end of the month the two observation stations that i live near have recorded 12.6mm(Bankstown) and 22.2 (Holsworthy). What a let down.

Rather brisk.You could be right about reduced heat for Feb due to cloud cover Homer. As far as the Kimberley and Pilbara being taken out of the heat generation equation for the moment. Cloud over Simpson helpful as well. I think the heat this Jan has been drawn from the Simpson and not from WA , which was the source of Jan 2013 heat if memory serves me correctly